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سبتمبر 2018

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Rubina

Rubina Photo location: Dhaka, Bangladesh We woke up in terror after the roof of our house was swept away, and moments later we were chest deep in rising waters. The water came […]

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Stories from Bangladesh – climate migration

[masterslider id=”1″] Two global agreements – one focused on the protection of refugees and the other on migration – are in the final stages of negotiation between governments, under the […]

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Khodeja

Khodeja Photo location: Hatiya, Bangladesh My children ask me all the time why we have to move from one island to another. I have no answer.  I also ask Allah the same […]

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Rita Begum

  Rita Begum Photo location: Dhaka, Bangladesh We were the people from north Bengal and lived on the banks of the Brahmaputra River. Each year we were the first in the country to endure the flooding, before […]

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Morjina Begum

Morjina Begum Photo location: Tangaial, Bangladesh My entire life had been spent on an island on the Brahmaputra River. I had never seen any vehicles in my 35 years of life, except for boats, ox carts and horse carts. Like me hundreds of women from these islands had never […]

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Hamida Begum

Hamida Begum Photo location: Jessore, Bangladesh I never thought even in my worst dreams that I would have to leave my land and move to Dhaka – but this is what I […]

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Hamida Begum

Hamida Begum Photo location:  Gabura, Sathkhira, Bangladesh She doesn’t go to school anymore. For us, collecting water is more important than going to school now. We old people used to go […]

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Khairul Mia

Khairul Mia Photo location: Shamnagar, Sathkhira, Bangladesh I was a hawker of girls cosmetics in our village and married a beautiful happy girl who I fell in love with the first day […]

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Kala Chan

  Kala Chan (100 years old) Photo location: Sariya kandi, Bogura, Bangladesh I was the owner of 116 bighas of land in our village beside the beautiful river Ganga. Every year […]

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Shaha Ali

Shaha Ali Photo location: Sariya kandi, Bogura, Bangladesh I poured my sweat and blood into building my house. I did it with my own hands. My wife and I worked hard every day so that we could […]

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